WSVF Show #12 "Mountain Music" featuring "Just One More" (mm-#20) Me & Martha скачать в хорошем качестве

WSVF Show #12 "Mountain Music" featuring "Just One More" (mm-#20) Me & Martha

Shenandoah Music Trail presents the "Mountain Music Show featuring "Just One More" Kevin Meadows - guitar, vocals, manager Jacob Hensley - banjo, vocals Caleb Shifflett - mandolin, vocals Blade Hammer - bass fiddle Ken Bohlin - fiddle A Family Tradition Before the Bristol Sessions, the big bang and the birth of Country music, Country music’s heart started beating on September 6, 1716 when Governor Spotswood and his Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe first crested the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains and made their way down to the banks of the Shenandoah River where they sang and made merriment near the present day town of Elkton, Virginia. So began the history of music making in the Shenandoah Valley. In 1727 Adam Miller and his wife Barbara became the area’s first settlers and music making was not far behind. Today’s Mountain Dulcimers owes its existence to the Valley's early German settlers’ scheitholt. The Kentucky Harmony by Ananias Davisson first printed in 1816 was distributed to settlers as they traveled down the Great Wagon Road on their way to Kentucky and westward. In 1820 the Kentucky settlement Churches credited with originating the bluegrass high-lonesome sound sang from the same books as Bela Lam from Elkton. Joseph Funk from Singers Glenn published the Harmonia Sacra, the Mennonite Shape-note singing book. Both books were printed locally in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Today you will find well attended, regularly scheduled Shape Note Hymn Sings sprinkled throughout the Valley. In 1925, before the 1927 Bristol Sessions, Okeh Records arranged for Ralph Peer to record Elkton favorites Bela Lam and the Green County Singers. These12 recordings showcase finger picking banjo and “high-lonesome” harmony singing that has long associated with bluegrass and had been played in the Elkton area for generations. This history continues today as relatives of these early settlers continue an unbroken legacy of music making spanning over 280 years. That’s eight generations of musicians. Today there are dozens of family bands with deep roots in Mountain music. Three members on our Spotlight Showcase are part of Elkton’s music making legacy. Jacob Hensley, Kevin Meadows, and Caleb Shifflett. WE are proud to have Just One More (bluegrass band) as our Showcase guests.